The Dude Rug Scene

Donny himself actor steve buscemi even once seemed to confirm the theory saying donny is just a figment of walter s imagination during a big lebowski reunion.

The dude rug scene.

In the script s first draft the dude was revealed as the heir to the rubik s cube fortune. It really tied the room together. Directed by joel coen ethan coen. The dude s rug being peed on is mentioned to 17 times throughout the movie.

The dude steals one of the big lebowski s rugs. The fact that it really tied the room together is noted five times. The dude jeff bridges asks the big lebowski david huddleston to compensate him for his soiled rug. The dude and the second rug.

The rug is a mentioned decorative oriental rug in the the dude s living room. With jeff bridges john goodman julianne moore steve buscemi. The dude abides that rug really tied the room together. Eventually realizing they have the wrong man they leave.

It appears in two forms the original and the one taken from the big lebowski s house. Joel coen later scrapped the idea choosing to leave the dude s source of income a mystery. The big lebowski where s the money lebowski. There are few cult films revered by its audience more than the big lebowski and even fewer that have so deeply infiltrated the american psyche and lexicon both the laid back sarcastic.

The dude agrees in large part because the big lebowski wants to pay him 20 000. In 1991 los angeles jeffrey the dude lebowski a middle aged bachelor with a penchant for cannabis and bowling is assaulted by two goons hired by pornographer jackie treehorn demanding money owed by the wife of another jeffrey lebowski the eponymous big lebowski one urinates on the dude s rug. The big lebowski recruits the dude to recover his kidnapped wife. Two thugs shake down the dude jeff bridges for an alleged debt.

Fans point out that the dude doesn t really interact with donny and insist walter may just be remembering a friend who died in the vietnam war. Jeff the dude lebowski mistaken for a millionaire of the same name seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.